Welles

[ welz ]

noun

1. (George) Orson, 1915–85, U.S. actor, director, and producer.
2. Gideon, 1802–78, U.S. journalist, legislator, and government official: Secretary of the Navy 1861–69.
3. Sumner, 1892–1961, U.S. diplomat and government official.

Welles

/ wɛlz /

noun

1. Welles(George) Orson19151985MUSFILMS AND TV: directorTHEATRE: actorFILMS AND TV: producerFILMS AND TV: writer ( George ) Orson (ˈɔːs ^ən). 1915–85, US film director, actor, producer, and screenwriter. His Citizen Kane (1941) and The Magnificent Ambersons (1942) are regarded as film classics

Example Sentences

In a career that now encompasses 22 features, director Richard Linklater has tackled myriad subjects and worlds: high school, Orson Welles, weirdos, lovers, ballplayers, boyhood.

From Los Angeles Times

Not unlike Orson Welles, another American filmmaker who experienced unexpectedly enormous success early in his career who turned increasingly experimental as a filmmaker later in life, Coppola became fascinated with new possibilities for movies.

From Seattle Times

As Charles Foster Kane, a sendup of newspaper tycoon William Randolph Hearst, Welles embodied the image of a vainglorious Great Man.

From Los Angeles Times

Buster Keaton, Billy Wilder, Orson Welles and Elaine May all spent their later years struggling to mount projects.

From Seattle Times

In the classic film “Citizen Kane,” star and director Orson Welles plumbed the psychological mysteries of his character, Charles Foster Kane, closely modeled on the newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst.

From Salon